As the Middle East crisis chokes global oil supply, Russia is cashing in -- raking in a record $9.7 billion a month in energy revenues. Foreign correspondent Joseph Hammond explains how Ukraine is fighting back.

The U.S. military is moving rapidly to build and deploy advanced laser weapons after years of the defense industry failing to pursue directed energy arms, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told Congress on Wednesday.

An alleged Islamic State group militant from Afghanistan was convicted on Wednesday of aiding the terror organization that took credit for a deadly suicide bombing at a Kabul airport, but a jury couldn't agree on whether he bears some responsibility for that attack during the U.S. military's chaotic withdrawal from the country in 2021.

The governor of Sinaloa and nine other current and former Mexican officials were charged with drug trafficking and weapons offenses in a U.S. indictment unsealed Wednesday in New York.

Iran's national rial currency dropped to a record low Wednesday while a U.S. naval blockade has increased pressure on its already battered economy amid a fragile ceasefire.

British authorities on Wednesday arrested nine members of an Islamic sect on allegations of forced marriage, sex offenses and modern slavery.

The Golden Dome will employ advanced ground-based interceptors, space-based missiles, laser guns and cyberattacks to defend against threats to the U.S., according to officials.

The king of the U.K. and the mayor of the largest city in the U.S. are set to meet Wednesday.

Ukraine's top prosecutor on Wednesday requested that Israeli forces seize a Russian ship carrying grain that he says was stolen from territory occupied by Russia.

The U.S. has spent about $25 billion to fund Operation Epic Fury, which began Feb. 28 and is aimed at eliminating Iran's nuclear arsenal and offensive missile capability.

In the world of diplomatic faux pas, it could have been a lot worse.

The families of victims of a school shooting in a Canadian Rockies town are suing artificial intelligence company OpenAI in U.S. federal court, seeking to hold the ChatGPT maker responsible for failing to alert police to the shooter's alarming interactions with the chatbot.

Russia's traditional parade marking the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II will take place next week without tanks, missiles and other military equipment, the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is expected to face tough questioning from members of Congress on Wednesday when he appears before the House Armed Services Committee for the first time since the start of Operation Epic Fury.

Andrea Bunar had been waiting for months for the arrival of spring and the day she could finally deliver the mail by barge again through the narrow waterways of the Spreewald Forest delta southeast of Berlin.

A German tourist has died after being bitten by a cobra during a snake-charming show at a hotel along the Red Sea in Egypt, multiple news outlets report.

Cubans hunched over tables this month to sign up for the socialist government's campaign to support national sovereignty and defy the U.S. as tensions between the countries escalate.

Indonesia is urging social media companies and digital platforms to report the number of accounts that have been suspended as part of the implementation of government regulations restricting access for children under 16, authorities said Wednesday.

Slovakia's Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld the ruling of a lower court that convicted a man of a terrorist attack and sentenced him to 21 years in prison for attempting to assassinate the country's populist Prime Minister Robert Fico almost two years ago.

Lebanese authorities detained the former Palestinian ambassador to Lebanon on corruption charges shortly after he arrived in the country, officials said Wednesday.